Primarily about four strangers whose discrete lives become
irretrievably connected. The news is told essentially through the
eyes of an unfamiliar English patient, the sole survivor of a plane
shot down adjacent the creation of Life War II, his undecided is awash
with a life’s significance of secrets and passions. As tales of the past
and present unfold, the characters reveal themselves to one
another and two love stories emerge. Their dangerous journeys
from Cairo through the Sahara favour them toward the conclusion in
an outcast Italian friary at the close of the engagement.